Open Position - Des Moines Shop Service Technician

JOB DESCRIPTION


Summary/Objective
The service technician position performs highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain customer’s equipment.

Essential Functions

  1. Perform highly diversified duties to install and repair fluid handling products.
  2. Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of pumping equipment during production and perform scheduled maintenance repairs of equipment.
  3. Perform simple machinist duties and responsibilities.
  4. Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic.
  5. Read and interpret pump manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
  6. Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test, and make adjustments.
  7. Perform regular preventive maintenance on pumps and equipment.
  8. Use various hand and power tools, electric meters and material handling equipment in performing duties.
  9. Comply with safety regulations and maintain clean and orderly work areas.

 Competencies

  1. Technical Capacity.
  2. Ethical Conduct.
  3. Communication Proficiency.
  4. Results Driven.
  5. Initiative.

Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.

Physical Demands
An employee must meet the physical demands described here to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time hourly position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, around 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM, with the potential of overtime.

This technician would be based at our Des Moines office, 4280 E 14th Street, Des Moines, IA 50313.

Travel
Travel is minimal for offsite training and some onsite service work.

Required Education and Experience
High school diploma/GED

Preferred Education and Experience
Post-secondary or trade school is preferred but not required.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

AAP/EEO Statement
All personnel actions, including compensation, benefits, recruitment, hiring, training, and promotions, are administered without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status, and all employment decisions are based solely on valid job requirements. In addition, employees and applicants are protected from harassment, threats, coercion, intimidation, interference, or discrimination for (1) filing complaint; (2) assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance review, hearing, or any other activity under Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, or any other law requiring equal opportunity for disabled persons and other protected veterans; (3) opposing any practice made unlawful by these laws, or (4) exercising any other right protected by these laws.

 

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.